"...You should know that trying to provoke me like this was useless." The Sage of Six Paths fell silent for a moment before speaking again.
Shin shrugged with a light laugh. "No, I didn't mean to provoke you. I meant every word I just said."
"Heh!" The Sage of Six Paths gave a soft chuckle, but his grip on the Sage Staff tightened involuntarily. Looking at Shin, he said, "From what you just said, you know my true objective?"
Shin glanced at the world he was in and smiled. "More or less. At our level, there are only a handful of things we can do. In the end, isn't it all about taking another step forward? But your scheme ran deep..."
"A thousand years ago, you separated the origins of the five chakra natures and scattered them across the world. Then, you passed down the origins of Yin-Yang Release chakra to Indra and Asura respectively, while allowing them to fight and reincarnate against each other, plunging this world into a thousand years of war.
"You watched it all silently from behind the scenes. You even chose to die once yourself, to comprehend the true Ultimate Technique of life and death. Your goal was to completely devour the origins of the five chakra natures and Yin-Yang Release after returning. By then... even without recreating the world as I did, you could become the true god of the Main World. And you would be stronger than I was after creating a new world, because by then, you yourself would be the world."
A faint smile appeared on the Sage of Six Paths' face as he praised, "A good guess. Though not entirely correct, it is not far from the truth. But so what? Taking another step beyond the Six Paths Level is